Hi,

After I downloaded the last Boinc client I couldn't merge my old Computer ID with the new one.
The CPU type name is different but I have not changed my PC hardware.
Could this be fixed ?


Computer ID 392761 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 144 Pentium
Computer ID 627312 AuthenticAMD AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 144

Greetings,
DQ

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Lots and lots of us have that same problem. If the name is not EXACTLY the same you cannot merge the clients. Eventually the old one will be dropped off as the results are credited and the database is purged of non-working machines.

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> Hi,
>
> After I downloaded the last Boinc client I couldn't merge my old Computer ID
> with the new one.
> The CPU type name is different but I have not changed my PC hardware.
> Could this be fixed ?
>
>
> Computer ID 392761 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 144 Pentium
> Computer ID 627312 AuthenticAMD AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 144

The reason is the change from "AMD" to "AuthenticAMD". The server side thinks it is two completely different hosts, so they can't be merged. The same thing happens if you change OS - I have changed from win 2000 to win xp - and can't merge the same hosts as the OS is different.

Personally I just leave the old hosts that can't be merged alone ;)

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thnxs
Then I leave them be since there is nothing else I can do :'(

DQ

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Yup, me too.
Must be Seti specific as I could merge at:
LHC, Einstein, & Predictor.

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> > Hi,
> >
> > After I downloaded the last Boinc client I couldn't merge my old Computer
> ID
> > with the new one.
> > The CPU type name is different but I have not changed my PC hardware.
> > Could this be fixed ?
> >
> >
> > Computer ID 392761 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 144 Pentium
> > Computer ID 627312 AuthenticAMD AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 144
>
> The reason is the change from "AMD" to "AuthenticAMD". The server side thinks
> it is two completely different hosts, so they can't be merged. The same thing
> happens if you change OS - I have changed from win 2000 to win xp - and can't
> merge the same hosts as the OS is different.
>
> Personally I just leave the old hosts that can't be merged alone ;)
>
>
When mine changed to AuthenticAMD AMD.... it didn't create new ID for my system. I have even changed my CPU without getting new ID. The only time i received a new ID was when boinc went from version 3.xx to 4.xx and my old ID took several months to go away from Seti.

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> When mine changed to AuthenticAMD AMD.... it didn't create new ID for my
> system. I have even changed my CPU without getting new ID. The only time i
> received a new ID was when boinc went from version 3.xx to 4.xx and my old ID
> took several months to go away from Seti.

It doesn't happen all the time - one of my hosts didn't get a new id, the other one did

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